World leaders seek new path to slow warming of planet | Reuters
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... Corp and Walter Energy Inc have filed for bankruptcy as tighter regulations, falling energy prices and an economic slowdown in China have taken a toll. The UN says investment in renewable energy has grown 500 percent since 2004 to $270 billion in 2014, and prices have fallen sharply. Britain, home of the Industrial Revolution, now plans to phase out coal-fired power plants by 2025. Even ...
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Canada's Alberta to introduce economy-wide carbon tax in 2017 | Reuters
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... Democratic Party took power earlier this year, ending 44 years of Conservative rule. "It will help us access new markets for our energy products, and diversify our economy with renewable energy and energy efficiency technology," Notley said in Edmonton. "Alberta is showing leadership on one of the world's biggest problems." Alberta has the world's third largest crude reserves, but its ...
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Canada's Alberta to introduce economy-wide carbon tax in 2017 | Reuters
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... New Democratic Party took power earlier this year, ending 44 years of Conservative rule. "It will help us access new markets for our energy products, and diversify our economy with renewable energy and energy efficiency technology," Notley said in Edmonton. "Alberta is showing leadership on one of the world's biggest problems." Alberta has the world's third largest crude reserves, but its ...
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Canada's Alberta to introduce economy-wide carbon tax in 2017 | Canada | Reuters
... Democratic Party took power earlier this year, ending 44 years of Conservative rule. "It will help us access new markets for our energy products, and diversify our economy with renewable energy and energy efficiency technology," Notley said in Edmonton. "Alberta is showing leadership on one of the world's biggest problems." Alberta has the world's third largest crude reserves, but its ...
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Analysis - Britain needs to start doing favours to win EU friends | Reuters
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... Cameron may need to help Poland's new nationalist government by offering support for it to keep subsidised, polluting coal mines open longer and slow its EU obligation to switch to renewable energy sources. "Clearly Poland has no interest to have Britain out of the EU. It all depends how they can make a package," said Grela. "That used to be a strength of British diplomacy." (Writing by ...
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Renewable Taos Seeks 100% Renewable Energy That Is "Accessible To All"
... Renewable Taos Seeks 100% Renewable Energy That Is "Accessible To All" November 21st, 2015 by Rocky Mountain Institute Originally published on RMI Outlet . By Laurie Guevara-Stone New Mexico is officially known as the "Land of Enchantment." However, before 1941, the state's license plates declared New Mexico "the Sunshine State." It's the third sunniest state in the U.S., behind Arizona ...
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How Nova Scotia Will Become A Green Powerhouse
... Will Become A Green Powerhouse November 20th, 2015 by Roy L Hales Originally published on the ECOreport Nova Scotia has made some impressive strides towards adopting more renewable energy. Less than a decade ago, fossil fuels produced 85% of its electricity, and now it is obtaining 24% from renewables. The former carbon junkie now has a report that explains how Nova Scotia will ...
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Merkel: 10 years in office and no signs of stopping - Yahoo News
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... all of the country's reactors would be shut off by 2022 as part of the "Energiewende" roughly, "energy turnaround." She embarked upon one of the world's most ambitious plans for renewable energy, pledging that sources including wind and sun would make up 40-45 percent of Germany's energy mix by 2025, and 55-60 percent by 2035. The decision was popular in Germany, but readying Europe's ...
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Russia, Egypt sign deal to build Egypt's first nuclear plant - CNN.com
... The deal was signed by Sergei Kirienko, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, and Egypt's Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker, Rosatom's press service told RIA Novosti. The plant is expected to be operational within 12 years, the report said. Rosatom chief: Plant to meet international safety standards It will be comprised of four nuclear power ...
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Greens propose new $500m renewable energy body
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... million government authority would deliver a 15-year pipeline of clean energy projects through a combination of reverse auctions and direct investment under a Greens plan to boost renewable energy and close down coal-fired power stations. Federal Greens Leader Richard Di Natale will on Sunday announce RenewAustralia, a key element of the party's policy to make Australia's energy generation 90 ...
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SunEdison Raises $403 Million for TerraForm to Buy Wind, Solar - Renewable Energy World
... SunEdison Inc., the best-performing U.S. solar company, raised $402.5 million to help buy renewable energy plants in emerging markets, and then purchased more than 2 gigawatts of wind and solar projects in Central America and Asia. The company completed a $335 million private placement deal for part of its stake in TerraForm Global LLC, a unit created to own and operate power plants, ...
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China’s Guangdong Province Speeds Up Development of the Province’s Clean Energy Industry - Renewable Energy World
... The Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission has recently issued a development road map for the province's nuclear and renewable energy sources, including natural gas, wind power and solar power, entitled the Implementation Plan for Speeding up the Development of Guangdong Province's Clean Energy Industry. It is important to note that, at variance with the rest of the world, ...
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Japan Should Continue Its Road Towards Renewables - Renewable Energy World
... The power sector crisis in Japan has entered a new stage. The recent refusal of Japanese utilities to grant grid access to new renewable energy projects should not be seen as a failure of Japan's renewable energy policy, but as a consequential and necessary phase to extend Japan's technological leadership into the power sector. Through its feed-in tariff for renewables projects, Japan ...
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With 1.6 GW of Wind Capacity Installed in Q2, American Wind Power Continues To Ramp Up in 2015 - Renewable Energy World
... that momentum, Congress also took a step in the right direction yesterday when the U.S. Senate Finance Committee voted 23-3 to extend the primary federal tax incentives for growing renewable energy as part of a larger tax policy extension bill. "With a near-record amount of wind capacity under construction, this looks to be a strong year for American wind power," said Tom Kiernan, CEO of the ...
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Marine Energy Making Waves on Both Sides of the Pond - Renewable Energy World
... development of the wave energy sector have been launched in the U.S. and Europe. As part of the ongoing work to establish a viable United States wave energy industry, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SANDIA) are working on the creation of a sophisticated open-source modeling tool known as WEC-Sim and the U.S. Department of Energy is also ...
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Renewables in North Africa: A Nation-By-Nation Report Card - Renewable Energy World
... restrictions, and inadequate regulatory frameworks. Even so, power generation projects and structural reforms to support them are pushing forward in this region and in many cases renewable energy is the best solution, particularly tapping into solar and wind resources, according to recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan. Total power installed capacity in the North Africa region was roughly 6 ...
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Renewable Energy Is Driving the Energy Transformation: REWNA Recap Video - Renewable Energy World
... Orlando, Florida -- Renewable energy stakeholders are well aware that clean energy is slowly but steadily transforming the energy landscape and that message couldn't have been more clear at the recently concluded Power-Gen International, the largest show for the traditional power generation industry. Since all forms of power generation are represented at the show through the four co-located ...
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US Government Recommits to Renewable Energy Ramp-up - Renewable Energy World
... an executive order re-establishing one of the proclamations from the climate change plans it issued this summer: significantly boosting the U.S. federal government's support of renewable energy to supply 20 percent of its energy consumption by 2020. The U.S. federal government's broad climate-change initiatives issued earlier this summer gained a lot of notice for their emphasis on ...
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The Big Question: Where Do You See Renewable Energy Growth Potential in 2015? - Renewable Energy World
... The annual outlook issue of Renewable Energy World magazine is our attempt to predict what will happen within the renewable energy industry over the course of the year. To do this, we went straight to the top of major renewable energy companies, asking CEOs and presidents to tell us where they are devoting their company resources in order to capitalize on some of the market growth that they ...
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Obama’s International Climate Strategy: More Grease for Renewables - Renewable Energy World
... Virginia, USA -- It was good news for renewable energy when President Barack Obama in June proposed carbon dioxide restrictions on existing power plants. It is even better news now that he may use the plan to leverage an international climate accord. That’s the word from renewable energy advocates who are closely watching as Obama works to broker a climate agreement with the world&rsquo ...
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MHK risk assessment tool set for demonstration in London this month - Renewable Energy World
... Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and consultancy firm Frazer-Nash, both based in the UK, will perform a live demonstration of their marine hydrokinetics (MHK) energy project risk assessment tool during the International Tidal Energy Summit pre-conference risk and reliability workshop in London on Nov. 23. The risk assessment tool was constructed using open source software and the ...
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Cuomo Can Boost Leadership Role with Renewable Energy - Renewable Energy World
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Virtual Reality and Wind Energy: A Powerful Combination - Renewable Energy World
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China's Kong Sun to Double Solar Power Installations Next Year - Renewable Energy World
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Cities, States, Industry Increase Commitments to Promote Community Solar - Renewable Energy World
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Quest to Boost Microalgae Growth Promises More Sustainable Energy - Renewable Energy World
... Bruce Rittmann and physicist Klaus Lackner will lead a new research project to aid U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efforts to boost production of a promising source for clean, renewable energy. DOE has awarded ASU a three-year, $1 million grant to fund the Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Capture and Membrane Delivery project aimed at enabling more large-scale cultivation of microalgae. ...
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Listen Up: Solar Safety - Renewable Energy World
... and $500 heating bills. There are literally hundreds of products, tricks and techniques that we can use to dramatically reduce these costs very affordably. The Energy Show on Renewable Energy World is a weekly 20-minute podcast that provides tips and advice to reduce your home and business energy consumption. Every week we'll cover topics that will help cut your energy bill, explain new ...
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Scotland Rejects Two Wind Farm Proposals From Windkraft, SSE - Renewable Energy World
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Guatemala Considering 200 MW Geothermal RFP in 2016 - Renewable Energy World
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Skyfill: Where the Sky is a Free Sewer, Are Bioeconomy Thermodynamics Extremely Flawed from the Get Go? - Renewable Energy World
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Wind Derivatives: Has Their Time Come? - Renewable Energy World
... Source: CAPP, Crude Oil Forecast, Markets & Transportation, June 2014 The Changing Landscape In 2008, governments began offering tax breaks and incentives to firms building renewable energy projects. By having a top priority in distribution coupled with the added incentives, renewable energy has become the power of choice for small players, such as financial investors. Today, however, ...
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France to Push On With Climate Summit After Paris Attacks - Renewable Energy World
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Microgrids Seen as Answer for 620 Million Africans Without Power - Renewable Energy World
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Moniz Highlights Five Technologies as Solutions for Carbon Reduction - Renewable Energy World
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Apple to power Singapore operations with renewable energy | Reuters
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... Apple announced on Sunday that it has struck a deal to power all of its Singapore operations with renewable energy, the latest in a series of steps from the company to turn its operations worldwide green. Starting in January, solar energy developer Sunseap Group will provide Apple with 100 percent renewable electricity from its portfolio of solar energy systems built atop more than 800 ...
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